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Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest (Durham East Asia Series)
Xinjiang China's Muslim Far Northwest - Durham East Asia Series Author:Michael Dillon Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's... more » history, economy and society, and above all outlines the political and religious opposition by the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples of Xinjiang to Chinese Communist rule.« less